Wattage
High Voltologist
Well it's not the most exciting purchase I'll ever make but what the heck it's still an amp so New Practice Amp Day it was yesterday.
My little micro cube has seen some better days so I was going to get a bigger Cube to keep around for practicing and dragging around when I needed something light. Turns out my local shop no longer handles Roland, hmmm. I didn't bite right away but the new VIP Vypyr seemed like a fair amount of amp for the money and I generally like Peavey so after thinking it over for a day I grabbed the 40wt VIP2 version.
Nothing wrong with the 20 but I wanted something I could jam with in a pinch and I liked the idea of a 1x12 instead of 1x10. I certainly didn't need the 100wt version for what I want it for....:smack: I must be getting old.
Used it yesterday for a bridal procession that I had to play and it was solid, big, warm and clean sounding with a decent reverb. I was also able to play additional music through it with the aux in. It worked well. some amps sound like ass using the aux jack with the ipod but this sounded great.
Practiced for about 3 hours today with it and I've got to say while there are some goofy little things about it, mostly looks, it is pretty impressive. I updated the firmware to v1.62 and now have a access to PC based editing of patches which is nice. I won't swear to it but I thought I noticed some of the effects sounding a little better after the firmware update. Have to put my bass back together and see how it sounds as a little practice amp for that too.
Seems decent enough to recommend checking out if you're in the market. I like it better than the recent Valvetronix amps I tried and I would guess would more than hold it's own against the equivalent Cube so all good here.
My little micro cube has seen some better days so I was going to get a bigger Cube to keep around for practicing and dragging around when I needed something light. Turns out my local shop no longer handles Roland, hmmm. I didn't bite right away but the new VIP Vypyr seemed like a fair amount of amp for the money and I generally like Peavey so after thinking it over for a day I grabbed the 40wt VIP2 version.
Nothing wrong with the 20 but I wanted something I could jam with in a pinch and I liked the idea of a 1x12 instead of 1x10. I certainly didn't need the 100wt version for what I want it for....:smack: I must be getting old.
Used it yesterday for a bridal procession that I had to play and it was solid, big, warm and clean sounding with a decent reverb. I was also able to play additional music through it with the aux in. It worked well. some amps sound like ass using the aux jack with the ipod but this sounded great.
Practiced for about 3 hours today with it and I've got to say while there are some goofy little things about it, mostly looks, it is pretty impressive. I updated the firmware to v1.62 and now have a access to PC based editing of patches which is nice. I won't swear to it but I thought I noticed some of the effects sounding a little better after the firmware update. Have to put my bass back together and see how it sounds as a little practice amp for that too.
Seems decent enough to recommend checking out if you're in the market. I like it better than the recent Valvetronix amps I tried and I would guess would more than hold it's own against the equivalent Cube so all good here.
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